The Year of Our Lord 1918

Bishop Events

January to March

Date	Age	Event	Bishop	Title	Current Title
unknown	23.7	Ordained Priest	Nikolay Avtonomov †	Priest	Titular Archbishop of Ratiaria
	31.8	Professed	Patrick Cleary, S.S.C.M.E. †	Member of Missionary Society of St. Columban	Bishop of Nancheng [Nancheng], China
		Died	Giuseppe Forestier, S.M. †	Prefect of Northern Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
	37.6	Resigned	Canisius Teodorus Gellings, SS.CC. †	Prefect of Western Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land, Papua New Guinea	Prefect Emeritus
		Born	Alexander Mbuka-Nzundu †		Bishop of Kikwit, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
		Born	Matthias Leo Pei Xiangde (Pei Shangde), C.D.D. †		Bishop of Beijing [Peking], China
	65.9	Died	Johannes Baptist Steeneman, C.I.C.M. †	Superior of I-li o Kul-Dia, China
		Born	[Joseph Zhu Hua-yu] †		Bishop of Anqing [Anking, Huai-ning], China
1 Jan		Born	Dominic Joseph Conway †		Bishop Emeritus of Elphin, Ireland
1 Jan	29.1	Ordained Priest	Alain-Sébastien Le Breton, S.M.M. †	Priest of Missionaries of the Company of Mary	Bishop Emeritus of Tamatave, Madagascar
2 Jan	61.6	Appointed	Pierre-Célestin Cézerac †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Albi, France	Archbishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France
2 Jan	61.6	Appointed	Pierre-Célestin Cézerac †	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Mauretania	Archbishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France
4 Jan	54.2	Appointed	Emilio Jiménez Pérez †	Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro, Spain
4 Jan	54.2	Appointed	Emilio Jiménez Pérez †	Titular Bishop of Anthedon	Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro, Spain
5 Jan	84.1	Died	John Samuel Foley †	Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
		Born	Dominic Joseph Chwane Khumalo, O.M.I. †		Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Durban, South Africa
		Appointed	Giuseppe Sagnori †	Apostolic Administrator of Alatri, Italy	Priest of Segni, Italy
6 Jan	43.9	Ordained Bishop	Flaminio Belotti, P.I.M.E. †	Titular Bishop of Sufetula	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Nanyang [Nanyang], China
	36.0	Ordained Bishop	Louis-Christian-Marie de Cooman, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Tacia Montana	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Thanh Hóa, Viet Nam
	20.7	Entered	Benno (Walter) Gut, O.S.B. †	Member of Order of Saint Benedict	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship
		Born	José de Matos Pereira, C.M.F. †		Bishop of Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
		Ordained Priest	Joseph Patrick O’Donohoe, M.H.M. †	Priest of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill	Prefect Emeritus of Kafiristan e Kashmir, Pakistan
	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Antonio María Pueyo de Val, C.M.F. †	Bishop of Pasto, Colombia
10 Jan	68.1	Appointed	Denis Hallinan †	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
11 Jan		Born	Paul Guo Wenzhi †		Bishop Emeritus of Qiqihar [Tsitsihar], China
	47.9	Appointed	Ignace Hummel, S.M.A. †	Apostolic Administrator of Togo	Vicar Apostolic of Costa d’Oro {Gold Coast}, Ghana
		Born	John Mackey †		Bishop Emeritus of Auckland, New Zealand
	48.2	Appointed	Carmelo Patané †	Archbishop of Otranto, Italy	Archbishop of Catania, Italy
12 Jan	78.6	Appointed	Angelo Michele Jannachino †	Titular Bishop of Lorium	Bishop Emeritus of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy
12 Jan	78.6	Resigned	Angelo Michele Jannachino †	Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy	Bishop Emeritus
13 Jan	81.5	Died	Aeneas Chisholm †	Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland, Great Britain
		Born	Joseph Fan Zhong-Liang, S.J. †		Bishop of Shanghai [Shanghai], China
		Born	Basil (Wasyl) Filevich (Felivich) †		Bishop Emeritus of Saskatoon (Ukrainian), Canada
		Born	Thomas Benjamin Fulton †		Bishop Emeritus of Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada
14 Jan	67.3	Resigned	Hubert Otto, C.I.C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Kansu {Kansu Settentrionale}, China	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
15 Jan		Born	Édouard Gagnon, P.S.S. †		Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family
	82.7	Died	Mariano Supervía y Lostalé †	Bishop of Huesca, Spain
		Born	Sebhat-Leab Worku, S.D.B. †		Bishop Emeritus of Adigrat (Ethiopian), Ethiopia
16 Jan		Born	Marcelo González Martín †		Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain
18 Jan		Born	Jesús María Coronado Caro, S.D.B. †		Bishop Emeritus of Duitama-Sogamoso, Colombia
	55.0	Appointed	Paolo Jacuzio †	Apostolic Administrator of Capaccio e Vallo della Lucania, Italy	Archbishop of Sorrento, Italy
		Born	Adriano Mandarino Hypólito, O.F.M. †		Bishop Emeritus of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
		Born	Sebastian U Shwe Yauk †		Bishop of Toungoo, Myanmar
	77.9	Died	George John Smith †	Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, Scotland, Great Britain
19 Jan		Born	Joseph Marie Anthony Cordeiro †		Cardinal, Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan
19 Jan		Born	Joseph Kelanthara †		Archbishop of Verapoly, India
21 Jan	61.7	Appointed	Pierre-Célestin Cézerac †	Apostolic Administrator of Cahors, France	Archbishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France
	71.9	Died	Nicholas Aloysius Gallagher †	Bishop of Galveston, Texas, USA
	76.6	Died	Victor Mihaly de Apşa †	Archbishop of Făgăraş şi Alba Iulia (Romanian), Romania
22 Jan	45.6	Selected	Emilio Juan Francisco Lissón y Chávez, C.M. †	Archbishop of Lima, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus
23 Jan	83.0	Died	Luigi Lazzareschi †	Bishop Emeritus of Gubbio, Italy
23 Jan	76.7	Died	James McGolrick †	Bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, USA
25 Jan		Born	Warren Louis Boudreaux †		Bishop Emeritus of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA
25 Jan	54.1	Appointed	John William Shaw †	Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
27 Jan	59.4	Ordained Bishop	Charles O’Sullivan †	Bishop of Kerry (o Ardfert) e Aghadoe, Ireland
28 Jan	45.0	Appointed	Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza †	Bishop of Espírito Santo, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
	52.8	Appointed	Jonas de Araújo Batinga †	Bishop of Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil
	41.4	Appointed	Joaquim Mamede da Silva Leite †	Bishop of Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Auxiliary Bishop of Campinas, Brazil
		Appointed	Vicente Maria Moreira, O.P. †	Bishop of Porto Nacional, Tocatins, Brazil	Former Bishop-Elect
	68.0	Died	Biagio Pisani †	Titular Archbishop of Naupactus
29 Jan		Born	Giovanni Décimo Pellegrini, O.F.M. †		Vicar Apostolic of Cuevo, Bolivia
30 Jan	45.7	Appointed	Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente †	Cardinal, Bishop of Le Mans, France
30 Jan		Born	Joseph Gerard Grondin, M.M. †		Prefect Emeritus of Musoma, Tanzania
Feb	50.1	Appointed	Andrew Brennan Meehan †	Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA	Priest of Rochester, New York, USA
	60.8	Resigned	Carlo Pietropaoli †	Apostolic Delegate to Venezuela	Bishop Emeritus of Trivento, Italy
	44.8	Died	Eugen Remigius Schwarz, O.F.M. Cap. †	Prefect of Bettiah, India
1 Feb		Born	Ignacy Marcin Tokarczuk †		Archbishop Emeritus of Przemyśl, Poland
2 Feb	55.1	Appointed	Americo Bevilacqua †	Titular Archbishop of Scythopolis	Bishop Emeritus of Alatri, Italy
	54.0	Appointed	Giovanni Festa †	Titular Archbishop of Tharona	Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
	57.3	Ordained Bishop	Jean-Joseph-Benoît-Marie Martel †	Bishop of Digne (-Riez-Sisteron), France
	65.4	Appointed	Agostino Migliore †	Auxiliary Bishop of Nola, Italy	Bishop of Monopoli, Italy
	65.4	Appointed	Agostino Migliore †	Titular Bishop of Dometiopolis	Bishop of Monopoli, Italy
	41.8	Ordained Bishop	Luca Piergiovanni †	Bishop of Tarquinia e Civitavecchia, Italy
4 Feb		Born	José Joaquim Ribeiro †		Bishop Emeritus of Díli, Timor-Leste
5 Feb		Born	Vincenzo Fagiolo †		Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts
6 Feb	40.6	Ordained Bishop	John Mark Gannon †	Titular Bishop of Nilopolis	Bishop Emeritus of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
7 Feb	53.2	Ordained Bishop	Henri Lécroart, S.J. †	Titular Bishop of Anchialus	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sienhsien [Xianxian] (Siensien), China
8 Feb	56.8	Appointed	Daniel Mary Gorman †	Bishop of Boise City, Idaho, USA
	57.8	Appointed	Cyrillo de Paula Freitas †	Titular Bishop of Antipatris	Bishop Emeritus of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
	57.8	Resigned	Cyrillo de Paula Freitas †	Bishop of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Bishop Emeritus
10 Feb		Born	Manuel Ferreira Cabral †		Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
10 Feb	30.8	Ordained Priest	Peter Magoshiro Matsuoka †	Priest	Bishop Emeritus of Nagoya, Japan
11 Feb		Born	Danilo Catarzi, S.X. †		Bishop Emeritus of Uvira, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
11 Feb		Born	Donal Joseph Murray, C.S.Sp. †		Bishop Emeritus of Makurdi, Nigeria
15 Feb	53.9	Appointed	Joseph-Lucien Giray †	Bishop of Cahors, France	Bishop Emeritus
15 Feb	41.9	Appointed	Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B. †	Bishop of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil	Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
16 Feb	46.3	Appointed	Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani †	Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies
17 Feb	66.0	Died	João Paulino de Azevedo e Castro †	Bishop of Macau, China
	34.8	Ordained Bishop	Joaquín Garcia Benitez, C.I.M. †	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia	Archbishop Emeritus of Medellín, Colombia
	48.3	Ordained Bishop	Carmelo Patané †	Archbishop of Otranto, Italy	Archbishop of Catania, Italy
		Born	John A. Weidner, S.A.C. †		Prefect Emeritus of Raipur, India
18 Feb		Born	Michel Callens, M. Afr. †		Prelate of Tunis, Tunisia
20 Feb	50.0	Appointed	Gilberto Fuenzalida Guzmán †	Bishop of Concepción, Chile
		Born	Henri Légaré, O.M.I. †		Archbishop Emeritus of Grouard-McLennan, Alberta, Canada
	46.3	Appointed	Luigi Francesco Pierini, O.F.M. †	Bishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia	Archbishop of Sucre, Bolivia
	49.7	Appointed	Carlos Silva Cotapos †	Bishop of La Serena, Chile	Bishop Emeritus of Talca, Chile
21 Feb	50.8	Appointed	Antonio José Luis Castro Alvarez, SS.CC. †	Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud, Chile	Bishop Emeritus
21 Feb		Born	Franco Illia †		Archbishop of Shkodrë, Albania
22 Feb	47.4	Appointed	Mateo Múgica y Urrestarazu †	Bishop of Osma, Spain	Bishop Emeritus of Vitoria, Spain
23 Feb	23.5	Ordained Priest	Alfredo Bontempi †	Priest	Rector
	27.0	Ordained Priest	Domenico Brizi †	Priest	Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli, Italy
	37.7	Appointed	Giorgio Giovanni Elli †	Bishop of Squillace, Italy
	24.8	Ordained Priest	Felipe Santiago Hermosa y Sarmiento †	Priest of Cuzco, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus of Cuzco, Peru
	24.4	Ordained Priest	Bl. Michaël Kozal †	Priest	Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek (Kujawy, Kalisze), Poland
	23.0	Ordained Priest	Paolo Marella †	Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy	Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Fabric of St. Peter
	23.4	Ordained Priest	Primo Principi †	Priest	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Loreto, Italy
24 Feb	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Luigi Ferretti †	Bishop of Poggio Mirteto, Italy	Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino, Italy
24 Feb		Born	Edward Kisiel †		Archbishop Emeritus of Białystok, Poland
25 Feb	53.6	Ordained Bishop	William Codd †	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland
	48.5	Ordained Bishop	William Lewis Keatinge †	Titular Bishop of Metellopolis	Vicar Apostolic of Great Britain, Military
	45.7	Confirmed	Emilio Juan Francisco Lissón y Chávez, C.M. †	Archbishop of Lima, Peru	Archbishop Emeritus
26 Feb	74.8	Died	Edmond Francis Prendergast †	Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 Feb		Born	Charles Alexander Kazimieras Salatka †		Archbishop Emeritus of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
28 Feb		Born	Cyriaque Siméon Obamba †		Bishop Emeritus of Mouila, Gabon
2 Mar		Born	Marián Ján Potáš, O.S.B.M. †		Bishop
4 Mar		Born	José María Larrauri Lafuente †		Bishop Emeritus of Vitoria, Spain
4 Mar	63.6	Died	Lazzaro Mladenoff, C.M. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Macedonia (Thessalonika) (Bulgarian)
5 Mar	65.5	Died	Domenico Serafini, O.S.B. †	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
6 Mar	90.5	Died	Jean-Baptiste Cazet, S.J. †	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Central Madagascar {Madagascar Centrale}, Madagascar
8 Mar	43.3	Installed	Claudio María Volio y Jiménez †	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras	Bishop Emeritus
8 Mar		Born	Fernando Vargas Ruiz de Somocurcio, S.J. †		Archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa, Peru
10 Mar	68.3	Ordained Bishop	Denis Hallinan †	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
	54.5	Appointed	Daniel Hermida Ortega †	Bishop of Cuenca, Ecuador
	65.5	Ordained Bishop	Agostino Migliore †	Titular Bishop of Dometiopolis	Bishop of Monopoli, Italy
	23.5	Ordained Priest	Luis Pérez Hernández, C.I.M. †	Priest of Congregation of Jesus and Mary	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia
11 Mar	35.9	Appointed	Giuseppe Ramiro Marcone, O.S.B. †	Abbot of Montevergine, Italy
12 Mar	61.8	Appointed	Oreste Giorgi †	Cardinal, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
		Born	Joseph Gregory Vath †		Bishop of Birmingham, Alabama, USA
	63.5	Appointed	Willem Marinus van Rossum, C.Ss.R. †	Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
13 Mar	67.9	Died	Giovanni del Papa, O.S.B. †	Abbot of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Italy
	50.9	Appointed	William Hayden †	Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia	Archbishop of Hobart, Australia
		Born	Bernard Henri René Jacqueline †		Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Emeritus to Morocco
14 Mar	53.5	Appointed	Jan Pacificus Bos, O.F.M. Cap. †	Vicar Apostolic of Dutch Borneo {Borneo Olandese}, Indonesia	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus
	48.4	Appointed	Joseph Wilfred Dwyer †	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
	59.4	Appointed	Domenico Lancellotti †	Bishop of Conversano, Italy
	66.9	Ceased	Giulio Vaccaro †	Apostolic Administrator of Conversano, Italy	Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy
15 Mar		Born	Nivaldo Monte †		Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
16 Mar	76.3	Died	John Healy †	Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland
16 Mar	24.0	Ordained Priest	Francisco Javier Santos Santiago, I.E.M.E. †	Priest of Instituto Español de San Francisco Javier para Misiones Extranjeras	Vicar Apostolic of San Jorge, Colombia
17 Mar	79.1	Died	Emilio Maria Miniati †	Bishop Emeritus of Massa Carrara, Italy
18 Mar	53.5	Appointed	Jan Pacificus Bos, O.F.M. Cap. †	Titular Bishop of Capitolias	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Dutch Borneo {Borneo Olandese}, Indonesia
	25.2	Perpetual Vows	Vitus Bouma, SS.CC. †	Member of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary	Prefect of Banka e Biliton, Indonesia
	61.8	Succeeded	Pierre-Célestin Cézerac †	Archbishop of Albi, France	Archbishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France
	75.4	Died	Eudoxe-Irénée-Edouard Mignot †	Archbishop of Albi, France
19 Mar	44.0	Ordained Bishop	Francesco Cammarota †	Bishop of Capaccio e Vallo della Lucania, Italy
	55.2	Ceased	Paolo Jacuzio †	Apostolic Administrator of Capaccio e Vallo della Lucania, Italy	Archbishop of Sorrento, Italy
		Born	Cipriano Biyehima Kihangire †		Bishop Emeritus of Gulu, Uganda
20 Mar	58.2	Appointed	Charles Joseph O’Reilly †	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
21 Mar		Born	Tomás Angel Romero Gross, O.P. †		Vicar Apostolic of Puyo, Ecuador
24 Mar	71.7	Died	Józef Weber, C. R. †	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Lviv, Ukraine
25 Mar	25.5	Ordained Priest	Alban Francis Swarbrick (of Blackburn), O.F.M. Cap. †	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin	Prefect Emeritus of Jullundur, India
25 Mar	25.0	Ordained Priest	Casimiro Magbanua Lladoc †	Priest	Bishop of Bacolod, Philippines
26 Mar		Born	André Lesouëf, M.E.P. †		Prefect Emeritus of Kompong-Cham, Cambodia
29 Mar		Born	José de la Soledad Torres y Castañeda †		Bishop of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
30 Mar	57.9	Died	Cosimo Agostino †	Bishop of Ariano, Italy
	24.4	Ordained Priest	Luigi Carlo Borromeo †	Priest of Lodi, Italy	Bishop of Pesaro, Italy
	34.0	Ordained Priest	William Theodore Heard †	Priest of Southwark, England, Great Britain	Cardinal, Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota
		Born	Gerald Francis O’Keefe †		Bishop Emeritus of Davenport, Iowa, USA
	23.1	Ordained Priest	Francesco Orlando †	Priest	Bishop of San Severo, Italy
	26.3	Ordained Priest	Edoardo Tonna †	Priest of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey	Bishop Emeritus
31 Mar	45.9	Appointed	Joseph-Fructueux Bourgain, M.E.P. †	Vicar Apostolic of Kienchang, China	Vicar Apostolic of Ningyüanfu, China
31 Mar	45.9	Appointed	Joseph-Fructueux Bourgain, M.E.P. †	Titular Bishop of Archelaïs	Vicar Apostolic of Ningyüanfu, China

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